Ghost Express/Ember app set up

I have turn my Javascript learning into some kind of renaissanceas of recent. I originally began learning Ember and quickly realized I did not know enough Javascript. I then proceeded to learn Ember and realized I didn't know enough about Node. I then learned Node and Express and glad I did.

Later I took on the challenge of forking the discourse project, which is a large Rails/Ember app and failed getting the pg database started. I gave that up after attempting to get it working after a long week.

I recently attempting the same task with Ghost, a blogging platform, and happy to report I got it up and running. I originally started using the Ghost hosted portion their blog platform 9 months ago, before it was cool. I had hopes of doing what I did today, host a blog on my own, but never got around to that till recently.

Ghost is built with node.js with Ember driving the

Javascript frameworks are new to me and very exciting, and my hope is to move closer towards the "full stack" web developer level.

The task of actually forking the project and following the instructions were very easy especially thanks to this blog post.

Some of the issues I came across was installing postgres in an express.js app, which actually wasn't that bad. All I had to do for that was `npm install pg --save` in the terminal., for some reason I thought had to update the package.json file directly which was not the case. Heroku has a great documentation on pushing a node app, which also helped.

Rails traditional does all that work for you, or at least I think it does.

Finally I push this blog to a public repo and was worried about putting my db info out there for everyone to see, so I searched and found the dotenv node package, which works exactly like the ruby gem.

I am enamored with npm, node, and express and really liking the possibility. As a Rails developer some might think I am jumping ship, but that is very far from the case. There are so many possibilities in app creation and I plan on going into more detail them in a blog post soon.

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